Sprout Farmming, Round 2.1

Well, my last round of sprouting was not too successful. I am not sure if the seeds were too old or if I did something wrong in the process. They seemed to start out alright but then they all acquired a sort of pungent odor which slowly got worse and worse until I just had to pitch them or risk some sort of weird sprout related illness. The sunflower sprouts actually never opened up fully. The broccoli sprouts did open but the texture was all wrong and then the odor started and the clover sprouts, did the best but got mushy. We have started a new round of sprouting experiments. This week we will be trying to grow winter wheat, garbanzo's and green pea's. The lil' darlings are soaking as I type. Once their 8-12 hour bath is done we will transfer them into the draining bowls and rinse them three times per day for 3-4 days. Hopefully this round will be more successful.


Sprouts Day 2


Sprouts Day 3


Sprouts Day 5 and beyond


The new kids in their sprout bath.
Top is green pea, bot. lt. is winter wheat
and bot. rt. is garbanzo.

I am hoping for better luck on this round.

Signing off
CM

Sprouts!

We are sprout farmers!

Well not exactly farmers, we have no land and no garden, heck we live in an apartment in the middle of Brooklyn. But still we grew sprouts and it only took 3 days! They look great, fluffy, green and delicious.

I stumbled upon this last weekend when we were at the store and I wanted to buy seeds of some sort and try to grow something. Apparently sprouts are the easiest thing in the world to grow, they did not need dirt or and fancy prep. We had to rinse them and drain them three times per day and then expose them to sunlight on the fourth day. Then viola! We had sprouts. I will include a link below which has good information on sprouts themselves. Apparently they are extremely nutritious, they continue to gain vitamins after being harvested. We chose not to refrigerate ours so that they can continue to develop. The thicker stemmed ones taste very much like green beans to me and I love green beans.

There are some other seedling packets at the store that I will be getting to experiment with, but for now I am happy with the sprouts and can't wait to throw them into a salad or wrap and munch away.

More on the "farming" another day!
City Mouse

p.s. here's the link: http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/sprouts.htm

of course i am sure there are many others, i thought this one was pretty informative.